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Page 1The CampanulaA new toolA visionLecture on 13.5.2014Dear Rotarian friends,A new instrument lies before us.It has emerged from a tradition of string instruments.Which itself uses many hundreds of years of developmentWhich then took place in the instruments of Stradivari and GuaneriReached its climax.This highlight has now been 300 years.Since-The instruments have been highly cultivated on larger onesSound, more power, more pressure.The violin makers of the 19th and20th century were and are basically glad that they were onA rich treasure of experiences of violin building traditionCan have recourse and have the form of the instrumentsNothing changed.The Campanula, the instrument, which was now before us,They are designed and designed by a German violin makerWho never visited a violin school.His name is Helmut Bleffert, and he lives far from the noiseThe big cities in a small village in the Eifel.Instead of the violin school, he had one in the 80sVision.He saw the fusion of the Sarangi, an in-String instrument with resonance strings and the classicalEuropean stringed instrument.Helmut Bleffert contributed all this to himself, bothTo develop the instrument, to build it, as well then it tooplay.Because he gave the instrument the shape of a bell,He called it after the bell-flower: Campanula.Page 2It is played with the same technique as the classical oneString instruments.There are also Campanula-Gigen and Cam-Panula violets.After almost 20 years of development and maturityThe Campanula family has in my opinion oneStable and promising basis to the publicMusic life a place.The special feature of the Campanula are therefore up to 16 additionalResonance strings, which now create a new sound space.Each actively played sound on the 4 playing strings produces a co-Vibrate the resonance strings, which are related to the playedMix the sound.Since the resonance strings also double themselves,We have a multiple of the overtone spectrum.The new sound is thus decisively influenced by two factors:True: from the resonance of the additional strings and theResulting in duplicated overtones.These twoPhenomena give a special magic.Why?As human beings we are hungry for resonance,For us, nanz is like an acoustic and mental mirror, theExtended ourselves.In English, resonance strings are also usedSympathetic strings, so sympathetic strings.Certainly you have learned from the theory of our elementary physics.Hearing or reading, according to which the primordial matter of matter isBut so-called strings, strings.AfterMathematically proven string theory would be theUniverse is a huge, innumerable collection of reso-Singing or non - resonating tiny vibratingStrings.If this theory proved to be correct,It would resonate with the Indian creation-myth.There it is said: Nada Brahma, which translates as: theThe world is sound.Page 3The search for resonance is a primal need of man.ItIs often examined and confirmed that the cave peopleIn the South of France, almost 100,000 years ago,Famous murals painted exactly where theThe cave had the most lively and strongest resonance.HereThus, cultic acts took place at these places, and thePeople with their voices couldOf the cave above itself, and with itselfThe animal shown on the wall.The phenomenon of overtones was already present by PhytagorasAbout 2,500 years ago.In principle this isTheory to date unchanged.In short, theOvertones the brilliance and the color of a sound.The naturalAre like vitamins, they are a food for un-And our ears, and our hearing, and our hearingWhole nervous system.Due to the lively resonance and diversity of the ObertöOur instrument here, the Campanula, has a strong oneReference to a kind of primordial sound.Phytagoras had the reputation of beingSound of the universe, which is called "music of theSpheres ".Today, we alsoNem spherical sound, if we have a sound as specialTransparent.One could say that the Campanula has a relation to the Sphä-Tory.For me it combines the sound of many sound traditions, andThus giving the player a wide range ofTions.By the resonance strings, the player gets likeThe listener has a second and third sound plane, which is a listening inThe depth of space.Not only playing the playerBut also the hearing of the listener.The sound gets a new room, but also an additional oneTime.By resonating the resonance stringsPage 4Additional timelines.These perceptionsA special mindfulness and so it comes to aDeceleration of the player, and thus of the listener.Through these effects the player is called by the timingTo play differently than on the classical instrument.fol-The Campanula, according to its own new composi-In particular, the Campanula offers the idealFor a quasi-intuitive improvisation, a play-From the moment of space, time and sound.stands.Until the beginning of the 19th century, improvisation,Or as it was then called, the "fantasizing" in the classicCommon form of making music.With the spread of the worksThe great composers, who were more and more printed,Lost the fantasizing.This state has stillHold as we classical musicians to the works of the greatComposers stare at the snake like the rabbit.The fantasizing or improvising is at German universitiesFor classical music instruments is not part of the trainingIn my opinion, is lacking in the dressage of music-Students today the free artistic-creative share.Here the Campanula can be found at least on the field of theInstruments make a valuable contribution, the fantasizingTo bring back to life and thus the training of the music-Students.Over the past few decades, new music instruments have beenEssential electrical and electronic.Keyboards, synthesizers,Guitars, electric violins and violoncellos.Everything is technicalPossible, just one not: the natural overtones canTechnically only to a limited extent.Listening to the natural overtones is like the sun-Not to replace the light, and thus, through the digitallyThe sound of the mp3 and CD sound is a creeping impoverishmentPage 5Of this hearing, without our lack of real knowledgebecomes.So here we have a musical instrument that is following this trendAlmost shocking way.An instru-Ment with subtle, delicate, sensitive sounds, with particularAttention.If this succeeds, the Campanula canTive layers of our being.Sen.Finally, I would like to inform you that some ro-(Friends Knapp-Lohmann, friend Cramer,Friend Lauer, friend Holz with your partners, friend WagnerAnd others) founded a charitable organization with me, The "Campanula Musica eV", which has set itself the goalHas to promote the spread of Campanula, and aboveBeyond improvising or fantasizing at the classicalTo revive music colleges.In the "Villa Campanula", which my partner and I in Tegel, We organize annually for the members of the association 4Concerts, which serve as a platform for youngIn addition to the classical repertoire,Fantasizing to try out.If you would like to be interested in this club and theRelated activities, I wouldvery pleased.The chairman of the association is Wolfgang Lohmann, treasurerIs friend Lauer.The annual contribution is 80 euros.Please send a short mailfaustcello@t-online.de,If I should send you more information.